Flowers for Algernon Flowers for Algernon‚ is a science fiction novel written by Daniel Keys. The story is taking place in the mid 1960’s. The text is representing a diary written by the main character‚ 37-year-old Charlie Gordon. He is uncommonly unintelligent‚ which influences his life‚ especially the social part. Although he is stupid‚ he has an incredible drive for learning. This desire probably has something to do with his night schoolteacher‚ Miss Kinnian‚ who he adores. He loves his
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Jia Liang Zeng 11/11/13 Mrs. Guadagno Period 2 In the story “Flowers for Algernon” written by Daniel Keyes‚ the main character‚ Charlie Gordon‚ and he has a decision to make. Should Charlie make the decision by getting the operation to triple his IQ of 68? Charlie made the wrong decision by getting the operation because it brought pain; he was able to see the true side of his friends‚ and he was able to see the sad realities of life which he was oblivious to before the operation. He was happy
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Sarah McHugh Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes Points: 11 Period: 2 Flowers for Algernon The story begins with the main protagonist Charlie Gordon. He is thirty two years old‚ and works at Donners Bakery and goes to the Beekmin Center for Retarded Adults three nights a week. He starts off with an I.Q. Of 68. His teacher is Alice Kinnian and a major character in the story and becomes a love interest with Charlie as he progresses and regresses throughout the story. Charlie Gordon starts off
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FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON By Daniel Keyes Progris riport 1 martch 3. Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on. I dont no why but he says its importint so they will see if they can use me. I hope they use me becaus Miss Kinnian says mabye they can make me smart. I want to be smart. My name is Charlie Gordon I werk in Dormers bakery where Mr Donner gives me 11 dollers a week and bred or cake if I want. I am 32 yeres old and next munth is
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Chapter 9‚ The Constitution: A More Perfect Union 9.1 Introduction: -The framers of the Constitution had to convince the people that the Constitution was the best idea for a government for the country. They wanted to make sure that ordinary citizens could understand it‚ so they gave it a short intro and organized it into parts‚ called articles. The articles were broken down into sections that discussed topics in a specific order. -The Constitution combines a strong framework for government
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To a large extent‚ ignorance is a bliss because before the operation‚ Charlie thought he had friends and enjoyed his job. However‚ to a certain extent‚ ignorance is not always bliss as Charlie felt inferior to others when his IQ was low. Firstly‚ ignorance is a bliss to a large extent as when Charlie was still ignorant‚ he always thought he had friends. He always thought that Joe Carp and Frank Reilly were his good friends and that they were laughing with him and not at him. From "My friends from
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Flowers for Algernon From the adaptation of Flowers for Algernon‚ Charlie Gordon is used for an experiment to surgically improve his intelligence. He then‚ started to digress and lost much of what he had learned. Though‚ Charlie may have thought that this operation was the right thing to do for himself‚ many oppose the theory that it is right to surgically improve human intelligence. Despite what Charlie did‚ it is wrong to surgically improve human intelligence. Many people have
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July 5‚ 2013 Pranz Ocampo Five Paragraph Essay: Short Story Unit My essay will be about the challenges that young people may have to go through when growing up. The short story that im going to compare this with is going to be "War"‚ "The Crystal Stars Have Just Begun to Shine"‚ and "Sniper". The author of these stories are Timothy Findley‚ Martha Brooks and Liam O’Flaherty. The main points that i would be focusing on are the hardship of young person with a single parent‚ the loneliness
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to be smart. Im gonna try awful hard.” In the short story Flowers for Algernon‚ Charlie Gordon is a 37 year old man with an extremely low I.Q. Throughout the story the author‚ Daniel Keyes‚ takes us on a roller coaster of emotions‚ which are constantly changing. One thing that doesn’t change in the story was Charlie’s great want and need for acceptance. The author reveals the theme of the need for acceptance in the story Flowers for Algernon. It is human nature to want to fit in‚ and Keyes demonstrated
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After having read several short science fiction stories‚ two certain stories really stood out to me‚ those two short stories were‚" Flowers for Algernon”‚ written by Daniel Keyes and‚ “The Second Variety”‚ written by Phillip K. Dick. I found that both of those texts focused on the central theme of man playing God‚ and both of them had their own approach of showing what happens when man plays God. Even though the outcomes of both stories are very different they both reach the same central idea of
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